The DVD/Blu-ray release of this weekend’s new documentary Side by Side seems as if it has the potential to be outstanding considering the wealth of impressive outtakes that have already made their way online. Tonight another one-minute clip has found its way to the Internet as it too was cut from the final film, this one featuring David Fincher talking about how he has to prepare for a film compared to how actors have to prepare.
The example he uses is clearly from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as he discusses how to prepare an actor for a scene in a thriller he is currently shooting, and it’s little nuggets like this that make up the documentary, though clearly some didn’t specifically apply to the largely “digital vs. film” theme of the doc and had to end on the cutting room floor.
Hopefully they find their way onto the home video release.
For outtakes from the film featuring Lana and Andy Wachowski (The Matrix, Cloud Atlas), Martin Scorsese and his Taxi Driver cinematographer Michael Chapman, Wally Pfister (cinematographer on The Dark Knight Rises and Inception) and Steven Soderbergh here.
The film is in limited theaters this weekend and hits On Demand and iTunes on August 22.
